Abbey Road Studios has announced the inaugural Abbey Road Studios Music Photography Awards 2022.
In association with Hennessy, the awards are a celebration of the art of music photography and the year’s most unforgettable, unique and unsung music moments, as well as the varied and talented photographers who captured them.
The winners will be unveiled and celebrated at an official MPAs ceremony in May at Abbey Road Studios.
Winners will be chosen by a panel of esteemed names including Rankin, Moses Sumney, Shygirl, Jill Furmanovsky, Dana Scruggs, Sacha Lecca and Isabel Garvey
In celebration of Abbey Road’s 90th anniversary, the MPAs will recognise photographers at all levels (established, emerging or undiscovered) through open-entry categories as well as categories chosen by a judging panel made up of artists, photographers and influential names taken from across the global music and photography industries.
Abbey Road Studios is inviting professional and emerging photographers from all around the world to enter the four open-entry categories titled Studio, Live, Championing Scenes and the Undiscovered Photographer of the Year, while the judging panel will choose one of these entries for the Zeitgeist award. These categories can be entered by photographers at all stages of their career via the official MPAs website.
Alongside these are four invited category awards, with the nominees and winners chosen by the official judging panel - made up of photographers, artists and experts within the music and photography industries. The invited categories are titled: Icon, Portrait, Editorial and Artist at Work.
Isabel said: ‘We are thrilled to launch the first Abbey Road Studios Music Photography Awards. It’s an important category of photography that hasn’t been officially recognised before and I am honoured to be able to make this happen with the MPAs. Abbey Road’s legacy has not only come from the incredible artists and records made here, but through the iconic imagery that has captured these seminal moments and transported them around the world. I am excited to work with our panel of talented judges to find and celebrate the next generation of image makers across the globe, who are shaping the way we see music.’
Full details of the award categories can be found here.
